COVID-19: Amid news that at least one Missouri county coroner is failing to report Covid deaths, the state's deaths are trending down whilst cases increase

I'm looking at Worldometers data currently:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/missouri/ archive

The news item was reported by the Kansas City Star:

In one Missouri county, coroner excludes COVID from death certificates if family asks

BY JAKE KINCAID, DEREK KRAVITZ, AND CAMERON BARNARD BROWN INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA INNOVATION

Macon County Coroner Brian Hayes handles the death certificates for this cattle, corn and soybean region of 15,000 in north-central Missouri, near Kirksville — roughly 130 to 140 deaths each year. That includes certifying the deaths of the few dozen residents who have succumbed to the coronavirus.

And in some cases, it has meant excluding COVID-19 from death certificates. ...

https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article253147128.html

What's going on here isn't clear, and I've not been following Missouri's data reporting trends. But in most other US states with current increasing Covid daily case rates, mortality has also begun trending up. The new case increases typically becan between ~15 June -- 4 July. But as a stark indication of internally inconsistent data, this is strongly suspicious.

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